July 17, 2025 • 30 mins
Description: Tim Conway Jr. kicks off the show with summer travel, which is headed to break records for the year. ABC’s Alex Stone joins the show to break down the shocking report on Air India’s Boeing 787 incident, where a captain allegedly shut off fuel after takeoff. Tim then pitches a hot new podcast idea — “Stef Foosh on Sports!” — and explains why the ESPYs still don’t match up to the Oscars. Later, Tim shares updates on airport security policies, including the end of shoe removal and 3.4-ounce liquid limits. He wraps the hour with the one part of the Big Beautiful Bill that matters most to him: a raise in the hand pay threshold for slot machines.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM sixty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app CAMFI AM at
six forty. It is The Conway Show. And I don't
know if you've seen any of these CEOs from Southwest
Airlines or American Airlines or United Airlines. They're all saying
(00:21):
they're gonna have a banner summer. They may not have
experienced anything like this in the history of aviation. Everybody's flying,
everybody's into getting out now because we're not in COVID,
there's no COVID restrictions, and we're bumping credit cards and
we're getting out there and enjoying ourselves because you never
know when it's going to be over. So cut to
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a air India where the pilot what either the pilot
or the co pilot shuts the the gas you know,
the gas to the fuel to the engines, causing it
to crash and only one guy survived. Two hundred and
fifty or two hunred and sixty people died, and now
that freaks people out. And then the second one with
one previous to that was the guy on the Alaska
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Airlines up in Washington or Oregon where he tried to
shut the engines off. So now guess what we have
another thing to worry about. Are the two guys that
we've always trusted in the cockpit or the flight deck?
I don't think they used that term cockpit anymore. Or
do we now have to look at them when we
get on the plane and go and size them up
and see how they're doing.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
What's he up to? What's she up to?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I don't know. Now we got to be nervous. That
got about another effing thing in life. All right, Alex
Stone is with us, Alex I can't handle another thing
to be nervous about.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, and in this case it is the older captain.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
You know, you would look and be like, Okay, he
looks he looks like he's got experience.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
You don't know what he's going through.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Maybe he was just discovered in a cold play kiss
cam and now he's done.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
That's what I thought you were going to talk about
when you said, CEO, that is everywhere on social media
right now.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
You tell you got to tell people what that is. I
don't know astronomer, I don't know what that is.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I don't know some tech company out of Boston, But
that he was at a cold Play concert with his
miss and then the kiss cam came on as they
were hugging, and Chris Martin on stage goes, I don't
know that, because then they jump out of the shot
and he says, either they're having an affair or they're
very shy. Turns out they're having an affair. And it's
now gone viral everywhere, this video of these two cuddling
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and then the kiss cam comes on them when they
break apart and kind of try to hide, and now
his wife knows.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
He had to want to have been caught.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
How the f are you at a public concert like
that with fifty sixty thousand people and you're hugging during
the kiss.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Cam and she's the hr manager, right.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
They had You know, a lot of people don't know
how to tell everybody that they're done with their marriage,
so they do it in a spectacular way.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
And that's how he did.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Go to cold Play and then have Chris Martin suspect
that you're.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Cheating, and all these social media has been wiped out. Hers,
the wife's everybody's you know gone now.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Put that video is everywhere on Twitter right now.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah, it is crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
So we have to worry about now, suicide and murders
in the cockpit.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Yeah, so you remember a couple days ago we were
talking about that it appeared somebody had on purpose turned
off the seven eighty seven's engines by cutting that fuel supply.
These are two switches below the throttles. You've got to
have intent to pull them out. They work independently, they
don't work together. You pull them out. They're spring loaded.
You go around a metal gate into the other position
to shut off the same thing on a seven thirty seven,
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seven sixty seven, Triple seven and the seven eighty seven.
And so today the Wall Street Journal, they've got sources
telling them that on the cockpit voice recorder it indicates
it was the captain. We didn't know until now. We
knew that it looked like that they had probably been
manipulated by hand, But who was the one flying and
who would have touched them? It appears it was the
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captain who turned off the engines. Right after liftoff. The
first officer panicked, we understand heard on the recording asking
the captain why he had shut off the fuel flow,
And the captain was totally calm the whole way until
the plane hit the ground and exploded, or the captain
said I didn't do it and it ended there. There
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is our aviation analyst, Steve Ganyard saying.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
We know that these switches didn't get bumped. We know
that it was a deliberate action where you have to
actually lift the switch and move it to the other position.
It's not something that can be bumped from one position
to another.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
The captain was fifty six years old, a veteran over
eight thousand hours of flying experience. The first officer was
thirty two years old, had three thousand, the lover three
thousand hours. And in recent days the pilot's union in
India and India's Transport Minister had been saying, look, none
of this is confirmed. Yet everybody stopped speculating that the
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captain committed murder suicide because other things could have gone on.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
And there the Transport minister saying.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I don't think we should jump into any conclusions on this.
I truly believe we have the most wonderful workforce in
terms of pilots and the crew in the whole world.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Today Air India, guy what that except that guy?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Yeah, except that one pilot today Air India said that
they have inspected every one of their Boeing aircraft that
they had wanted to make sure that this wasn't a
switch problem and make sure that all the switches were
working well. Now, again, these things work independently. So let's
just say that one of these didn't work where you
had to pull it out and do it and make
a point out of doing it, and that it just
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got bumped out of position. Well, that would have shut
down one engine. Unlikely that in a one second difference
the amount of time it takes a hand to do
one of these and then do the other one, that
they would have done them by themselves. But they checked
all of these. They're fine, and they they there's no
problem with the Boeing aircraft.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
So the airline so they don't need to check the
air the pilot, you know, the planes. They need to
check the pilots.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Well, and mental health is a big part of aviation
out it is in law enforcement and in firefighting and
everything else.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
But you can't say anything because that's the end of
your job.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
That is a thing.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
So that Alaska Airlines pilot that you were talking about,
who is accused of on that flight trying to reach
out and turn off the engines on that plane. That
he made the point quite openly, and his wife did
too after all all of that, saying that he had
been going through a lot, and he told police he
had gone through a lot and lost a friend. But
he could never say anything because if you say something
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understandably so immediately, you would lose your wings and you
weren't allowed to fly. I mean, you wouldn't want somebody
flying knowing that they have a problem. But he said
that was going to be the end of his career,
that in the case of the last Carolines pilot, he
had wanted to be a pilot since he was a
little boy and finally got to that point and then
had some problems in life, and that that would have
been the end of his career. So it could come
up in the annual physical that they've got to do,
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where some mental health questions are asked, or another pilot saying, hey,
you know, this guy is exhibiting something, or a family
member saying something. But a lot of pilots will tell
you that no matter what they've got going on in
their lives, that they're going to hide it in every
other possible not tell their doctor at their annual physical,
their FAA mandated physical, or show it at all in
the cockpit. Remember years ago when there was a Jet
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Blue pilot that had like the mental breakdown in flight
and they got him out of the cockpits, same sort
of thing, talking to himself, yeah, and yelling things as
they got him out of there. That until it comes
out in some spectacular way like a lot of industries
would be, it's hidden. And because they don't want to
lose their job. And if you're a mainline airline pilot,
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at least in the US, you're making really good money,
you know, United Delta America and they can be making
now three or four hundred thousand dollars a year or more.
That that's a lot of money. Just to give up
if if they feel like that they've got a problem.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
What is this?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
NBC in San Francisco has the names of the pilots.
I'm gonna hold off on these. I don't know if
these are the names.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I don't know NBC and San Francisco doesn't have a
great record.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Don't you gotta think, Yeah, that's that's these aren't the names.
I'm gonna pass on that, But I appreciate you coming
on and we all talk to you soon. You got it,
thanks man, Alex Stone. Now we got to worry about that.
Gotta worry about the guy sitting up in front shutting
the engines off and we all plummet. Those are the
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guys you trusted the most, you know, those are the
guys that walked through the cabin and you sat up
straight when that guy came through, right, you.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Know, when you were talking about it, and then you
jumped to the to the cold play guy. I was
in the middle of doing something and I kind of
came back in and I thought you were saying that
that was the same.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
That's kind of what I thought too.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I thought that was the pilot.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
That what a story, right, Get Alex back on, Let's
go with that route.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
That's a better story. That's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Man, oh man, you know, we have to worry about
everything now, everything, you know, the days of having those
two guys or gals or guy and gal or whoever's
up in front being the studs of the plane, being
the you know, the the caretakers of all the passengers,
being the ones that we turned to when there's a problem.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
That's over in a small part. That's over and it sucks.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Bellio.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I've got to ask you this because you are closer
to sports than than I ever was. Did the Yeah,
did the SPS exist when you were working with the Lakers?
I think so?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah? Did anyone go or did anyone care?
Speaker 8 (09:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Really?
Speaker 9 (09:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
They care about the ESPN Awards?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Really?
Speaker 8 (09:35):
Why is that shocking?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (09:38):
They were. They started in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Oh they did?
Speaker 8 (09:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Okay, but is that sort of some made up dumb
idea for an award?
Speaker 8 (09:46):
I don't think so. It's you know, recognizing athletic achievement.
What's wrong with that?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Right?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
But isn't the ultimate goal for an athlete to win
the Stanley Cop or.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
The Super Bowl?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (09:59):
They're championship?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Is that what they rather have?
Speaker 9 (10:02):
One?
Speaker 10 (10:03):
But it's also nice to be recognized in other ways.
I don't know what the categories are off the top
of my head, but well, who doesn't like getting awards?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I know, but I think athletes I don't care about
those awards.
Speaker 10 (10:15):
I think they do really. Plus it's a chance for
them to you know, get all dressed up and yeah,
but well, I don't think they like like that. I
don't think you know, they want to say like that. No,
they want to go out and drink, they want to
hang out their old bodies. They want to get to
you know, chicks. That's their run. But they do that
and go to award shows, so they don't have to choose.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Okay, you understand that.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yeah, but I guarantee that the Super Bowl is more important,
the World Series, NBA title, Stanley Cup, and for the
college athletes in the audience, winning March Madness is more important.
The national title in football, college World Series in baseball.
It's all more important.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
But like the Arthur ash Courage Award that the SP's.
Speaker 10 (10:56):
Give out, that's quite the accomplishment to be given that award.
Speaker 8 (11:00):
Who wanted a lot of people have.
Speaker 10 (11:02):
Won it, But I mean it's for most significant or
compelling humanitarian contribution. So a lot of athletes do give back,
So this is a nice way to recognize that.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Okay, all right, that's a But doesn't the end NFL
do that too? I don't think so. But the Super Bowl,
don't they have the one guy that they called the
Gale Sayers Award or the Big award everything.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
It's the Lamborghini Trophy.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
No, that's that's the ultimate trophy. Yeah, but that's also
not the Lamborghini Trophy. But but man, it's the Lombardi Trophy.
But you know what, I bet the Lamborghini Trophy. I
bet Lamborghini would love to sponsor that and change that
the Lamborghini Trophy. That'd be a good idea for them.
Speaker 9 (11:50):
To work on.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
But I know, Stephus, you're gonna think I'm e fing
crazy and you're gonna s all over me. If you
did sports, I would listen for three hours. Me too,
Me too.
Speaker 8 (12:01):
He should actually.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Three hours a day skuff sports. And it could be
his his uh opening could be scoff fouche where he's
doing a Tomahawk reverse slam dunk and and that's the
sound effect you hear.
Speaker 8 (12:16):
I love it, Scoff on sports.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Love it.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Me's three Dodgers Three.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Is it over?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
The end did about an hour ago. But the I
think that the ESPN Awards, I think, you know, it's
like the Golden Mics, you know, in in radio, I
don't think people really get up for that, you know,
but in in in television, they get up for the
Emmys because that is their big award, and movies it's
the Oscars, that's their big award. They get up for them,
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and that's a huge thing. But winning the Oscar for
Best Actor is like winning the Stanley Cup or the
you know, World Series or super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
That's their super Bowl. But the ESPN Awards, I don't know.
Speaker 10 (13:00):
I mean, look at I mean, this is like a
multi billion dollar industry, right, the sports industry, right, and
so it has grown into I mean into so many
different areas.
Speaker 8 (13:08):
Of course they would want award shows.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Oh yeah, no, no, I get that. I get why
they want award shows. I just don't think they look.
I saw the athletes sit on their hands last night
through this.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
Would you see what you witness tell us a lot.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
I just watched Shane Gillis's opening, you know, I was
wrong with it, and he's funny guy.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I like him.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
But the audience they're all looking at their watches. You know,
they want to get out of there. They don't want
to sit there. Maybe they want to get to the
drinking and the chicks.
Speaker 10 (13:38):
Maybe the watches were like advertisers and so they were
just showcasing them.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
You ever think about it?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Produ placement Shane Gillis was pretty funny. We'll come back
and play a little of it of Shane Gillis for
the SP's, the ESPN Awards, and the highlights from the
ESPN Awards, and I'll show you in the recipient's, you know,
voices that they're just not into it much. Rather win
a championship or get a big contract that's what they're
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looking for, or date Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I think that's even bigger.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
The sb's were last night and Shane Gillis was the host.
He's gotten mixed reviews. I think he's a very funny man,
but some of the jokes have been too edgy, may
have gone over the heads of some of the athletes there.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I get that.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I get that, and let me we'll see what you think.
Here we go the highlights Shane Gillis best jokes from
last night on the sb New York.
Speaker 9 (14:35):
Knicks had a great season. Yeah, hell yeah. Karl Anthony
Towns is here, Hey girl, SGA is here.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Give it up for SGA.
Speaker 9 (14:49):
Hell yeah, bro. And now everybody's sitting around him is
in foul trouble. Donald Trump wants to stage a UFC
fight on the White House lawn. The last time he
staged a fight in DC, Mike Pen's almost died. Actually,
there was supposed to be an Epstein joke here, but
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as it got deleted, that's pretty good. These are good jokes.
As it got deleted, must have probably deleted itself, right,
probably never existed. Actually, let's move on as a country
and ignore that. When Caitlyn Clark retires from the WNBA,
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she's going to work at a waffle house so she
can continue doing what she loves most, fist fighting black women.
I didn't write this. Put your hands where my eyes
can see is what they say when Deshaun Watson gets
a massage. I disagree as well. I swear to god,
I didn't want to tell.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
It, all right, And then some of the highlights from
the ESPN Award last night.
Speaker 11 (15:56):
The biggest names in sports were honored at the SP's
and the goat her so Simone Biles to come. Not
one but two trophies Best Athlete Women's Sports and Best
Championship Performance were her twenty twenty four Olympics all around
beat out Steph Curry the Dodgers, Freddie Freeman and Rory McElroy.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
That was very unexpected, especially in a category.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
Of all men. So thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Guys so much.
Speaker 11 (16:20):
And Savannah was a big night for your Eagles. Sekwon
won Best Play for that iconic reverse hurdle and the
Birds to come the w for Best Team. Hoshane Gillis
was certainly celebrating.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
The Eagles are up for her best team.
Speaker 9 (16:34):
Go Birds be it. And I bet you guys think
as an Eagles fan that I'm going to trash all
the other nominees, but far from it, I'm going to
celebrate them.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
I think this race is wide open.
Speaker 9 (16:46):
It definitely is not obvious who the best team was
this year. One of the nominees for Best Team is
the Dallas Cowboys. No, I'm joking, obviously, Dallas Sox Go Birds.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Was like one of the man I tell you Crozier,
you get banged on a lot with Steven A. Smith
and people making fun of those Cowboys. It never ends.
Keep talking, guys.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
There's a reason that you're talking about him, right, because
if they weren't worth anything, or they weren't worth talking about,
you wouldn't right.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Where do you think the hatred of that team comes
from the owner success.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Success.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Yeah, they're the most.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Popular team, the sports team on the planet. They're also
the most hated, but they are the most popular team
on the planet.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I have to give you that they've not done anything
in thirty years, but people keep talking about them.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
It is amazing.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I mean the run that you can go on and
not win a championship and yet still everyone talks about them.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
It's hilarious to me. It's like, oh, they're still in
your head, aren't they they are.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I mean, look, Chicago Blackhawks had a nice run back
in the late you know, two thousand ten's right around
that area, and then they haven't done anything since, you know,
like the La Kings, and people just stop talking about him. Yeah,
but nobody stops talking about the Cowboys.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
In nineteen ninety one two, the year before the year
this season that they won their first Super Bowl in
like ten, fifteen year or like fifteen years. I remember
being at the Christmas party, the KFI Christmas party way
back in the day, and there was some sports guy there.
He was talking smack and he for some reason, he
was talking smack about the Cowboys, And I said, you'd
better watch him and he goes ha losers and they
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won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
There.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Oh is that right? Oh that's great dude. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
So I enjoy people talking because at some point you're
going to have to shut up.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
That's great, all right, a lot of people flying.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
We talked to Alex Stone earlier and I know you're
nervous about it, but you may not have to take
your shoes off anymore. It's funny. We flew from Burbank
to Portland. I'd take my shoes off from Burbank, but
not in Portland.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Maybe they have better equipment in Portland. But now you
might be able to bring on a little more liquid
than what three ounces or three and a half ounces
when you travel.
Speaker 12 (18:55):
When Christy Nolan became Homeland Security Secretary, she said she
came in to look at everything TSA does and question
everything the TSA does. She removed that shoe requirement, as
you mentioned, and now she says she's considering the liquids
and gel requirement that all passengers must have. Here to
here's the secretary.
Speaker 13 (19:13):
Liquids I'm questioning. So that may be the next big
announcement is what size your liquids?
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Need to be.
Speaker 13 (19:19):
We have put in place in tsa multi layered screening
process that allows us to change some of how we
do security and screening so it still is safe.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Okay, belly O. I don't know if you remember this.
You might be too young, but when I was a kid,
you really are you're a child. You're a child. But
when I was a kid, there were no metal detectors
at airports.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Do you remember that? Probably not, I don't.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Okay, when I was a kid, nobody had to investigate
anything that was in your luggage. They just trusted you
were on the up and up and your luggage went
on board. And there was no security check between your
car and getting on the plane.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
It was just they would take the tickets and look
at you and that's it and you could get on
the plane. There was not a single scan of any luggage,
any carry on, any pockets. You have to take everything out,
you're belt, off, your shoes, your hat, your socks, none
of that. And to the point where, how about this,
I remember this distinctly my grandparents when we would stay
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with them in Cleveland. We'd go June, July and August
and spend three months with them in Cleveland every year
and if I ever write a thank you note or
hold a door open for somebody, I learned it there
in the Midwest. And they would take us to the airport.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
When we left.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
It was all at a very emotional time because you know,
we're leaving the two greatest people in the world and
coming home to the hysterics of the redbird, you know,
which is my mom. And she really laid the law
down when we got home, you know, on the way
home from the airport, when we landed Lax, she would
give us the speech, you're not in Cleveland anymore, You're
not with your grandparents anymore.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
You're going to straighten up, you know that.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
You know that's it was really an eye opener. But
when my grandparents would drop us off at the airport
or take us to the airport, they would make sure
we got to the gate and they would make sure
that we got to our seats, so they would walk
on the plane with us.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
Yeah, I remember that that was allowed.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
That was allowed.
Speaker 8 (21:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
And then I remember the door shutting and my grandparents
were still on the plane and they had to open
the door up really to take my grandparents off the plane,
and we were like, no.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Keep it closed, keep it closed.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
You know, they got to come with us.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
But it was a very easy way to travel, you know,
with six kids. You know, traveling with six kids through
you know TSA has got to be a nightmare. Yes,
but back then it was a better time and much
easier time, much much easier.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
But now might your liquids.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
You might be able to bring a you know, a
couple of gallons of I don't know water or what
is that stuff you drink, that pellegrino.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yeah, yeah, that pellegrino.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Well you may tell a grino is back.
Speaker 12 (22:02):
Well, you may remember that this liquids and gel requirement
is for three one one three point four ounces or
less or must be in a single plastic carry on
bag that you can have. Bottom line, as Christy Nohan says,
they want to move forward with testing the equipment to
test for potentially liquid explosives. And this decision is not
(22:23):
going to be imminent. It could be months, maybe even longer,
way before that technology is in place.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
What they're looking at the okay, all.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Right, when we come back. If you're a slot player,
you love slot machines. In Las Vegas, there was something
that was tucked away in the Big Beautiful Bill that
Donald Trump signed that I was unaware of as a
big slots player, and my friends who also liked to gamble,
were unaware of this. But when we come back, I'm
going to tell you what it is. If you love
(22:50):
slot machines, So call Michelle cube Bellio and have her
tune in. I know she's a big slots player, but
she's going to enjoy this. Something was tucked into that
bill specific four people like to play slot machines.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
And by the way, this weather outside over the last
couple of days and for the rest of the week
is spectacular. Whether you live near the coast or in
the desert area, it's not one hundred and thirteen one
hundred and fourteen degrees.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
It really is terrific.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
The Big Beautiful Bill that was signed by Donald Trump,
and there was a deal in there for slot machine
players and a lot of people don't know this. I
didn't know this until I looked it up. But right now,
when when you get and when you hit on a
slot machine, and it is twelve hundred dollars or more
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then you're gonna they're gonna stop the machine and you're
gonna have to do what they call a hand pay.
I don't really get many of those, but I've seen
I've seen him downtown. They come by, they stop the machine,
and you have to fill out a tax form and
then they give you the money. Some casinos actually keep
twenty percent of your winnings and then give it to
(24:15):
the IRS because a lot of guys who are in
the machines also owe money to the IRS, and they
will file that with the IRS, so the IRS knows
that you won at least twelve hundred dollars on that machine.
So it's kind of a bummer if you're drinking, you're
having a good time, and then you got to stop
your fun because you got to wait for some guy
(24:36):
who's completely disinterested in his job to come out and
give you your twelve hundred dollars. Sometimes it takes forty
five minutes and you have to sit there for forty
five minutes. You're on pause and you got to wait
for this guy to come back and he gives you
the twelve hundred dollars, and now you feel like you
got to duke him, you know, a twenty or you know,
fifteen fifty, whatever it is. If you're buzz maybe give
(24:59):
him a hundred bucks. I don't know, but it's it.
And then you start playing your slot machine again and
maybe you hit another one for thirteen hundred. Time to
stop again. But the second time they have your information.
It's a little quicker, but it's still it's not ideal. Okay,
So the limit was twelve hundred. So in this big
(25:20):
beautiful bill, the OBBBA, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
the Donald Trump sign it increases the reporting threshold for winning.
The tax reporting threshold for slot machine winnings has increased
from twelve hundred to two thousand, which is still far
(25:41):
lower than the casinos won. The casino's been fighting forever
to put that number and to cement it in at
five thousand dollars, which would be great that the IRS
doesn't know anything you won below five thousand dollars. That
would be a slam dunk. But here's the problem with
this bill. They reduced deduction for gambling losses. The bill
(26:07):
has lowered the deduction for gambling losses against winnings. It
used to be one hundred percent. You could write off
one hundred percent of your winnings, and that's why they
track you at casinos. So if you ever audited, you
can call Marongo or MGM or you know, whatever casino
you want add and they would give you a readout
(26:27):
of how much money you've spent and try to help
you with the irs. But now that it's not going
to be one hundred percent, it's going to be ninety percent.
That means gamblers effectively pay taxes on ten percent of
their losses, so you could actually spend money and get
taxed even though you didn't win. And so's there's one
(26:52):
positive aspect where the threshold went from twelve hundred two thousand,
But now you're on the hook. You cannot write off
one hundred percent of your gambling, only ninety percent max.
So you might actually owe money on money that you
never had, and it's going to be fairly complicated. So
(27:15):
if you are a gambler and you do spend any
time at casinos, try to get yourself an account that
understands this, because it's going to be pain in the
ass for guys who like to slide in there. We
got somewhat breaking news that Bellio just gave me here
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is over. It's going
(27:36):
to end May of next year. Colbert and CBS have
announced on Thursday, that's today, the company said that that
it will retire The Late Show, that franchise will go away.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will end it his
historic run in May of next years. We have about
ten months left on this deal and end the broadcast season.
(27:58):
The company said in the statement, we consider Stephen Colbert
irreplaceable and we'll retire the Late Show and that franchise
will go away. It'll never come back, and says we're
proud of Stephen and how he called CBS home and
it's purely a financial decision against the challenging backdrop of
Late Night. Okay, what they're not saying on this piece
(28:22):
of paper is that he killed his show. He wiped
it out. If you cannot watch that show unless you
also hate Donald Trump, and so it's a smaller, smaller audience.
You know, when you could never tell what Johnny Carson's
politics were, You never knew what his politics were. I
(28:44):
think at the end it was revealed that he was
more conservative than he was liberal. But you can never
tell on a show which way he was leading. He
did jokes about presidents, and it doesn't matter who was
in office, he did jokes about him. But with Stephen Colbert,
every single night, it's Donald He hates Donald Trump, and
his whole audience does too. When Steven A. Smith showed
(29:05):
up the other night and he made a comment about
about Donald Trump, the audience went nuts, and so he
reduced that audience to a mere you know, five to
six percent of the country, who I understand if you don't.
You know, if you don't like Donald Trump, but you
have to hate Donald Trump to watch that show. And
(29:26):
if you didn't, then the show didn't work for you.
And he killed that show. So all those people who
worked on that show and we're making a living. He
couldn't control himself and had had to bang on Trump
every night, and now all those people are going to
be out of work. All the cameramen, all the writers,
the wardrobe, the lighting guy, the producers, the segment producers,
(29:49):
the band, the music, all those guys are out of
a job because he couldn't control himself. He couldn't separate
himself and just do a comedy show every night. It
had to be f Trump, and he destroyed the show,
and all those salaries, all those are going away. If
he was successful and he opened it up a little,
he would still be on the air. But he didn't,
(30:11):
and he wiped him out. That's how a lot of
people see it, all right, real live. It's Cone Bay
Show Live on KFI AM six forty
It's KFI AM sixty and you're listening to The Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app CAMFI AM at
six forty. It is The Conway Show. And I don't
know if you've seen any of these CEOs from Southwest
Airlines or American Airlines or United Airlines. They're all saying
(00:21):
they're gonna have a banner summer. They may not have
experienced anything like this in the history of aviation. Everybody's flying,
everybody's into getting out now because we're not in COVID,
there's no COVID restrictions, and we're bumping credit cards and
we're getting out there and enjoying ourselves because you never
know when it's going to be over. So cut to
(00:41):
a air India where the pilot what either the pilot
or the co pilot shuts the the gas you know,
the gas to the fuel to the engines, causing it
to crash and only one guy survived. Two hundred and
fifty or two hunred and sixty people died, and now
that freaks people out. And then the second one with
one previous to that was the guy on the Alaska
(01:02):
Airlines up in Washington or Oregon where he tried to
shut the engines off. So now guess what we have
another thing to worry about. Are the two guys that
we've always trusted in the cockpit or the flight deck?
I don't think they used that term cockpit anymore. Or
do we now have to look at them when we
get on the plane and go and size them up
and see how they're doing.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
What's he up to? What's she up to?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I don't know. Now we got to be nervous. That
got about another effing thing in life. All right, Alex
Stone is with us, Alex I can't handle another thing
to be nervous about.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, and in this case it is the older captain.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
You know, you would look and be like, Okay, he
looks he looks like he's got experience.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
You don't know what he's going through.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Maybe he was just discovered in a cold play kiss
cam and now he's done.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
That's what I thought you were going to talk about
when you said, CEO, that is everywhere on social media
right now.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
You tell you got to tell people what that is. I
don't know astronomer, I don't know what that is.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I don't know some tech company out of Boston, But
that he was at a cold Play concert with his
miss and then the kiss cam came on as they
were hugging, and Chris Martin on stage goes, I don't
know that, because then they jump out of the shot
and he says, either they're having an affair or they're
very shy. Turns out they're having an affair. And it's
now gone viral everywhere, this video of these two cuddling
(02:17):
and then the kiss cam comes on them when they
break apart and kind of try to hide, and now
his wife knows.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
He had to want to have been caught.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
How the f are you at a public concert like
that with fifty sixty thousand people and you're hugging during
the kiss.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Cam and she's the hr manager, right.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
They had You know, a lot of people don't know
how to tell everybody that they're done with their marriage,
so they do it in a spectacular way.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
And that's how he did.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Go to cold Play and then have Chris Martin suspect
that you're.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Cheating, and all these social media has been wiped out. Hers,
the wife's everybody's you know gone now.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Put that video is everywhere on Twitter right now.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah, it is crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
So we have to worry about now, suicide and murders
in the cockpit.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Yeah, so you remember a couple days ago we were
talking about that it appeared somebody had on purpose turned
off the seven eighty seven's engines by cutting that fuel supply.
These are two switches below the throttles. You've got to
have intent to pull them out. They work independently, they
don't work together. You pull them out. They're spring loaded.
You go around a metal gate into the other position
to shut off the same thing on a seven thirty seven,
(03:20):
seven sixty seven, Triple seven and the seven eighty seven.
And so today the Wall Street Journal, they've got sources
telling them that on the cockpit voice recorder it indicates
it was the captain. We didn't know until now. We
knew that it looked like that they had probably been
manipulated by hand, But who was the one flying and
who would have touched them? It appears it was the
(03:41):
captain who turned off the engines. Right after liftoff. The
first officer panicked, we understand heard on the recording asking
the captain why he had shut off the fuel flow,
And the captain was totally calm the whole way until
the plane hit the ground and exploded, or the captain
said I didn't do it and it ended there. There
(04:03):
is our aviation analyst, Steve Ganyard saying.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
We know that these switches didn't get bumped. We know
that it was a deliberate action where you have to
actually lift the switch and move it to the other position.
It's not something that can be bumped from one position
to another.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
The captain was fifty six years old, a veteran over
eight thousand hours of flying experience. The first officer was
thirty two years old, had three thousand, the lover three
thousand hours. And in recent days the pilot's union in
India and India's Transport Minister had been saying, look, none
of this is confirmed. Yet everybody stopped speculating that the
(04:37):
captain committed murder suicide because other things could have gone on.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
And there the Transport minister saying.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I don't think we should jump into any conclusions on this.
I truly believe we have the most wonderful workforce in
terms of pilots and the crew in the whole world.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Today Air India, guy what that except that guy?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Yeah, except that one pilot today Air India said that
they have inspected every one of their Boeing aircraft that
they had wanted to make sure that this wasn't a
switch problem and make sure that all the switches were
working well. Now, again, these things work independently. So let's
just say that one of these didn't work where you
had to pull it out and do it and make
a point out of doing it, and that it just
(05:16):
got bumped out of position. Well, that would have shut
down one engine. Unlikely that in a one second difference
the amount of time it takes a hand to do
one of these and then do the other one, that
they would have done them by themselves. But they checked
all of these. They're fine, and they they there's no
problem with the Boeing aircraft.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
So the airline so they don't need to check the
air the pilot, you know, the planes. They need to
check the pilots.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Well, and mental health is a big part of aviation
out it is in law enforcement and in firefighting and
everything else.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
But you can't say anything because that's the end of
your job.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
That is a thing.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
So that Alaska Airlines pilot that you were talking about,
who is accused of on that flight trying to reach
out and turn off the engines on that plane. That
he made the point quite openly, and his wife did
too after all all of that, saying that he had
been going through a lot, and he told police he
had gone through a lot and lost a friend. But
he could never say anything because if you say something
(06:09):
understandably so immediately, you would lose your wings and you
weren't allowed to fly. I mean, you wouldn't want somebody
flying knowing that they have a problem. But he said
that was going to be the end of his career,
that in the case of the last Carolines pilot, he
had wanted to be a pilot since he was a
little boy and finally got to that point and then
had some problems in life, and that that would have
been the end of his career. So it could come
up in the annual physical that they've got to do,
(06:31):
where some mental health questions are asked, or another pilot saying, hey,
you know, this guy is exhibiting something, or a family
member saying something. But a lot of pilots will tell
you that no matter what they've got going on in
their lives, that they're going to hide it in every
other possible not tell their doctor at their annual physical,
their FAA mandated physical, or show it at all in
the cockpit. Remember years ago when there was a Jet
(06:54):
Blue pilot that had like the mental breakdown in flight
and they got him out of the cockpits, same sort
of thing, talking to himself, yeah, and yelling things as
they got him out of there. That until it comes
out in some spectacular way like a lot of industries
would be, it's hidden. And because they don't want to
lose their job. And if you're a mainline airline pilot,
(07:15):
at least in the US, you're making really good money,
you know, United Delta America and they can be making
now three or four hundred thousand dollars a year or more.
That that's a lot of money. Just to give up
if if they feel like that they've got a problem.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
What is this?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
NBC in San Francisco has the names of the pilots.
I'm gonna hold off on these. I don't know if
these are the names.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I don't know NBC and San Francisco doesn't have a
great record.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Don't you gotta think, Yeah, that's that's these aren't the names.
I'm gonna pass on that, But I appreciate you coming
on and we all talk to you soon. You got it,
thanks man, Alex Stone. Now we got to worry about that.
Gotta worry about the guy sitting up in front shutting
the engines off and we all plummet. Those are the
(08:04):
guys you trusted the most, you know, those are the
guys that walked through the cabin and you sat up
straight when that guy came through, right, you.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Know, when you were talking about it, and then you
jumped to the to the cold play guy. I was
in the middle of doing something and I kind of
came back in and I thought you were saying that
that was the same.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
That's kind of what I thought too.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I thought that was the pilot.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
That what a story, right, Get Alex back on, Let's
go with that route.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
That's a better story. That's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Man, oh man, you know, we have to worry about
everything now, everything, you know, the days of having those
two guys or gals or guy and gal or whoever's
up in front being the studs of the plane, being
the you know, the the caretakers of all the passengers,
being the ones that we turned to when there's a problem.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
That's over in a small part. That's over and it sucks.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Bellio.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I've got to ask you this because you are closer
to sports than than I ever was. Did the Yeah,
did the SPS exist when you were working with the Lakers?
I think so?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah? Did anyone go or did anyone care?
Speaker 8 (09:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Really?
Speaker 9 (09:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
They care about the ESPN Awards?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Really?
Speaker 8 (09:35):
Why is that shocking?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (09:38):
They were. They started in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Oh they did?
Speaker 8 (09:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Okay, but is that sort of some made up dumb
idea for an award?
Speaker 8 (09:46):
I don't think so. It's you know, recognizing athletic achievement.
What's wrong with that?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Right?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
But isn't the ultimate goal for an athlete to win
the Stanley Cop or.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
The Super Bowl?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (09:59):
They're championship?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Is that what they rather have?
Speaker 9 (10:02):
One?
Speaker 10 (10:03):
But it's also nice to be recognized in other ways.
I don't know what the categories are off the top
of my head, but well, who doesn't like getting awards?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I know, but I think athletes I don't care about
those awards.
Speaker 10 (10:15):
I think they do really. Plus it's a chance for
them to you know, get all dressed up and yeah,
but well, I don't think they like like that. I
don't think you know, they want to say like that. No,
they want to go out and drink, they want to
hang out their old bodies. They want to get to
you know, chicks. That's their run. But they do that
and go to award shows, so they don't have to choose.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Okay, you understand that.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yeah, but I guarantee that the Super Bowl is more important,
the World Series, NBA title, Stanley Cup, and for the
college athletes in the audience, winning March Madness is more important.
The national title in football, college World Series in baseball.
It's all more important.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
But like the Arthur ash Courage Award that the SP's.
Speaker 10 (10:56):
Give out, that's quite the accomplishment to be given that award.
Speaker 8 (11:00):
Who wanted a lot of people have.
Speaker 10 (11:02):
Won it, But I mean it's for most significant or
compelling humanitarian contribution. So a lot of athletes do give back,
So this is a nice way to recognize that.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Okay, all right, that's a But doesn't the end NFL
do that too? I don't think so. But the Super Bowl,
don't they have the one guy that they called the
Gale Sayers Award or the Big award everything.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
It's the Lamborghini Trophy.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
No, that's that's the ultimate trophy. Yeah, but that's also
not the Lamborghini Trophy. But but man, it's the Lombardi Trophy.
But you know what, I bet the Lamborghini Trophy. I
bet Lamborghini would love to sponsor that and change that
the Lamborghini Trophy. That'd be a good idea for them.
Speaker 9 (11:50):
To work on.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
But I know, Stephus, you're gonna think I'm e fing
crazy and you're gonna s all over me. If you
did sports, I would listen for three hours. Me too,
Me too.
Speaker 8 (12:01):
He should actually.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Three hours a day skuff sports. And it could be
his his uh opening could be scoff fouche where he's
doing a Tomahawk reverse slam dunk and and that's the
sound effect you hear.
Speaker 8 (12:16):
I love it, Scoff on sports.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Love it.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Me's three Dodgers Three.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Is it over?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
The end did about an hour ago. But the I
think that the ESPN Awards, I think, you know, it's
like the Golden Mics, you know, in in radio, I
don't think people really get up for that, you know,
but in in in television, they get up for the
Emmys because that is their big award, and movies it's
the Oscars, that's their big award. They get up for them,
(12:47):
and that's a huge thing. But winning the Oscar for
Best Actor is like winning the Stanley Cup or the
you know, World Series or super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
That's their super Bowl. But the ESPN Awards, I don't know.
Speaker 10 (13:00):
I mean, look at I mean, this is like a
multi billion dollar industry, right, the sports industry, right, and
so it has grown into I mean into so many
different areas.
Speaker 8 (13:08):
Of course they would want award shows.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Oh yeah, no, no, I get that. I get why
they want award shows. I just don't think they look.
I saw the athletes sit on their hands last night
through this.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
Would you see what you witness tell us a lot.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
I just watched Shane Gillis's opening, you know, I was
wrong with it, and he's funny guy.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I like him.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
But the audience they're all looking at their watches. You know,
they want to get out of there. They don't want
to sit there. Maybe they want to get to the
drinking and the chicks.
Speaker 10 (13:38):
Maybe the watches were like advertisers and so they were
just showcasing them.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
You ever think about it?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Produ placement Shane Gillis was pretty funny. We'll come back
and play a little of it of Shane Gillis for
the SP's, the ESPN Awards, and the highlights from the
ESPN Awards, and I'll show you in the recipient's, you know,
voices that they're just not into it much. Rather win
a championship or get a big contract that's what they're
(14:04):
looking for, or date Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I think that's even bigger.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
The sb's were last night and Shane Gillis was the host.
He's gotten mixed reviews. I think he's a very funny man,
but some of the jokes have been too edgy, may
have gone over the heads of some of the athletes there.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I get that.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I get that, and let me we'll see what you think.
Here we go the highlights Shane Gillis best jokes from
last night on the sb New York.
Speaker 9 (14:35):
Knicks had a great season. Yeah, hell yeah. Karl Anthony
Towns is here, Hey girl, SGA is here.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Give it up for SGA.
Speaker 9 (14:49):
Hell yeah, bro. And now everybody's sitting around him is
in foul trouble. Donald Trump wants to stage a UFC
fight on the White House lawn. The last time he
staged a fight in DC, Mike Pen's almost died. Actually,
there was supposed to be an Epstein joke here, but
(15:10):
as it got deleted, that's pretty good. These are good jokes.
As it got deleted, must have probably deleted itself, right,
probably never existed. Actually, let's move on as a country
and ignore that. When Caitlyn Clark retires from the WNBA,
(15:30):
she's going to work at a waffle house so she
can continue doing what she loves most, fist fighting black women.
I didn't write this. Put your hands where my eyes
can see is what they say when Deshaun Watson gets
a massage. I disagree as well. I swear to god,
I didn't want to tell.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
It, all right, And then some of the highlights from
the ESPN Award last night.
Speaker 11 (15:56):
The biggest names in sports were honored at the SP's
and the goat her so Simone Biles to come. Not
one but two trophies Best Athlete Women's Sports and Best
Championship Performance were her twenty twenty four Olympics all around
beat out Steph Curry the Dodgers, Freddie Freeman and Rory McElroy.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
That was very unexpected, especially in a category.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
Of all men. So thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Guys so much.
Speaker 11 (16:20):
And Savannah was a big night for your Eagles. Sekwon
won Best Play for that iconic reverse hurdle and the
Birds to come the w for Best Team. Hoshane Gillis
was certainly celebrating.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
The Eagles are up for her best team.
Speaker 9 (16:34):
Go Birds be it. And I bet you guys think
as an Eagles fan that I'm going to trash all
the other nominees, but far from it, I'm going to
celebrate them.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
I think this race is wide open.
Speaker 9 (16:46):
It definitely is not obvious who the best team was
this year. One of the nominees for Best Team is
the Dallas Cowboys. No, I'm joking, obviously, Dallas Sox Go Birds.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Was like one of the man I tell you Crozier,
you get banged on a lot with Steven A. Smith
and people making fun of those Cowboys. It never ends.
Keep talking, guys.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
There's a reason that you're talking about him, right, because
if they weren't worth anything, or they weren't worth talking about,
you wouldn't right.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Where do you think the hatred of that team comes
from the owner success.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Success.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Yeah, they're the most.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Popular team, the sports team on the planet. They're also
the most hated, but they are the most popular team
on the planet.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I have to give you that they've not done anything
in thirty years, but people keep talking about them.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
It is amazing.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I mean the run that you can go on and
not win a championship and yet still everyone talks about them.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
It's hilarious to me. It's like, oh, they're still in
your head, aren't they they are.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I mean, look, Chicago Blackhawks had a nice run back
in the late you know, two thousand ten's right around
that area, and then they haven't done anything since, you know,
like the La Kings, and people just stop talking about him. Yeah,
but nobody stops talking about the Cowboys.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
In nineteen ninety one two, the year before the year
this season that they won their first Super Bowl in
like ten, fifteen year or like fifteen years. I remember
being at the Christmas party, the KFI Christmas party way
back in the day, and there was some sports guy there.
He was talking smack and he for some reason, he
was talking smack about the Cowboys, And I said, you'd
better watch him and he goes ha losers and they
(18:25):
won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
There.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Oh is that right? Oh that's great dude. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
So I enjoy people talking because at some point you're
going to have to shut up.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
That's great, all right, a lot of people flying.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
We talked to Alex Stone earlier and I know you're
nervous about it, but you may not have to take
your shoes off anymore. It's funny. We flew from Burbank
to Portland. I'd take my shoes off from Burbank, but
not in Portland.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Maybe they have better equipment in Portland. But now you
might be able to bring on a little more liquid
than what three ounces or three and a half ounces
when you travel.
Speaker 12 (18:55):
When Christy Nolan became Homeland Security Secretary, she said she
came in to look at everything TSA does and question
everything the TSA does. She removed that shoe requirement, as
you mentioned, and now she says she's considering the liquids
and gel requirement that all passengers must have. Here to
here's the secretary.
Speaker 13 (19:13):
Liquids I'm questioning. So that may be the next big
announcement is what size your liquids?
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Need to be.
Speaker 13 (19:19):
We have put in place in tsa multi layered screening
process that allows us to change some of how we
do security and screening so it still is safe.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Okay, belly O. I don't know if you remember this.
You might be too young, but when I was a kid,
you really are you're a child. You're a child. But
when I was a kid, there were no metal detectors
at airports.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Do you remember that? Probably not, I don't.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Okay, when I was a kid, nobody had to investigate
anything that was in your luggage. They just trusted you
were on the up and up and your luggage went
on board. And there was no security check between your
car and getting on the plane.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
It was just they would take the tickets and look
at you and that's it and you could get on
the plane. There was not a single scan of any luggage,
any carry on, any pockets. You have to take everything out,
you're belt, off, your shoes, your hat, your socks, none
of that. And to the point where, how about this,
I remember this distinctly my grandparents when we would stay
(20:28):
with them in Cleveland. We'd go June, July and August
and spend three months with them in Cleveland every year
and if I ever write a thank you note or
hold a door open for somebody, I learned it there
in the Midwest. And they would take us to the airport.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
When we left.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
It was all at a very emotional time because you know,
we're leaving the two greatest people in the world and
coming home to the hysterics of the redbird, you know,
which is my mom. And she really laid the law
down when we got home, you know, on the way
home from the airport, when we landed Lax, she would
give us the speech, you're not in Cleveland anymore, You're
not with your grandparents anymore.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
You're going to straighten up, you know that.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
You know that's it was really an eye opener. But
when my grandparents would drop us off at the airport
or take us to the airport, they would make sure
we got to the gate and they would make sure
that we got to our seats, so they would walk
on the plane with us.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
Yeah, I remember that that was allowed.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
That was allowed.
Speaker 8 (21:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
And then I remember the door shutting and my grandparents
were still on the plane and they had to open
the door up really to take my grandparents off the plane,
and we were like, no.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Keep it closed, keep it closed.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
You know, they got to come with us.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
But it was a very easy way to travel, you know,
with six kids. You know, traveling with six kids through
you know TSA has got to be a nightmare. Yes,
but back then it was a better time and much
easier time, much much easier.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
But now might your liquids.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
You might be able to bring a you know, a
couple of gallons of I don't know water or what
is that stuff you drink, that pellegrino.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yeah, yeah, that pellegrino.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Well you may tell a grino is back.
Speaker 12 (22:02):
Well, you may remember that this liquids and gel requirement
is for three one one three point four ounces or
less or must be in a single plastic carry on
bag that you can have. Bottom line, as Christy Nohan says,
they want to move forward with testing the equipment to
test for potentially liquid explosives. And this decision is not
(22:23):
going to be imminent. It could be months, maybe even longer,
way before that technology is in place.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
What they're looking at the okay, all.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Right, when we come back. If you're a slot player,
you love slot machines. In Las Vegas, there was something
that was tucked away in the Big Beautiful Bill that
Donald Trump signed that I was unaware of as a
big slots player, and my friends who also liked to gamble,
were unaware of this. But when we come back, I'm
going to tell you what it is. If you love
(22:50):
slot machines, So call Michelle cube Bellio and have her
tune in. I know she's a big slots player, but
she's going to enjoy this. Something was tucked into that
bill specific four people like to play slot machines.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
And by the way, this weather outside over the last
couple of days and for the rest of the week
is spectacular. Whether you live near the coast or in
the desert area, it's not one hundred and thirteen one
hundred and fourteen degrees.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
It really is terrific.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
The Big Beautiful Bill that was signed by Donald Trump,
and there was a deal in there for slot machine
players and a lot of people don't know this. I
didn't know this until I looked it up. But right now,
when when you get and when you hit on a
slot machine, and it is twelve hundred dollars or more
(23:52):
then you're gonna they're gonna stop the machine and you're
gonna have to do what they call a hand pay.
I don't really get many of those, but I've seen
I've seen him downtown. They come by, they stop the machine,
and you have to fill out a tax form and
then they give you the money. Some casinos actually keep
twenty percent of your winnings and then give it to
(24:15):
the IRS because a lot of guys who are in
the machines also owe money to the IRS, and they
will file that with the IRS, so the IRS knows
that you won at least twelve hundred dollars on that machine.
So it's kind of a bummer if you're drinking, you're
having a good time, and then you got to stop
your fun because you got to wait for some guy
(24:36):
who's completely disinterested in his job to come out and
give you your twelve hundred dollars. Sometimes it takes forty
five minutes and you have to sit there for forty
five minutes. You're on pause and you got to wait
for this guy to come back and he gives you
the twelve hundred dollars, and now you feel like you
got to duke him, you know, a twenty or you know,
fifteen fifty, whatever it is. If you're buzz maybe give
(24:59):
him a hundred bucks. I don't know, but it's it.
And then you start playing your slot machine again and
maybe you hit another one for thirteen hundred. Time to
stop again. But the second time they have your information.
It's a little quicker, but it's still it's not ideal. Okay,
So the limit was twelve hundred. So in this big
(25:20):
beautiful bill, the OBBBA, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
the Donald Trump sign it increases the reporting threshold for winning.
The tax reporting threshold for slot machine winnings has increased
from twelve hundred to two thousand, which is still far
(25:41):
lower than the casinos won. The casino's been fighting forever
to put that number and to cement it in at
five thousand dollars, which would be great that the IRS
doesn't know anything you won below five thousand dollars. That
would be a slam dunk. But here's the problem with
this bill. They reduced deduction for gambling losses. The bill
(26:07):
has lowered the deduction for gambling losses against winnings. It
used to be one hundred percent. You could write off
one hundred percent of your winnings, and that's why they
track you at casinos. So if you ever audited, you
can call Marongo or MGM or you know, whatever casino
you want add and they would give you a readout
(26:27):
of how much money you've spent and try to help
you with the irs. But now that it's not going
to be one hundred percent, it's going to be ninety percent.
That means gamblers effectively pay taxes on ten percent of
their losses, so you could actually spend money and get
taxed even though you didn't win. And so's there's one
(26:52):
positive aspect where the threshold went from twelve hundred two thousand,
But now you're on the hook. You cannot write off
one hundred percent of your gambling, only ninety percent max.
So you might actually owe money on money that you
never had, and it's going to be fairly complicated. So
(27:15):
if you are a gambler and you do spend any
time at casinos, try to get yourself an account that
understands this, because it's going to be pain in the
ass for guys who like to slide in there. We
got somewhat breaking news that Bellio just gave me here
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is over. It's going
(27:36):
to end May of next year. Colbert and CBS have
announced on Thursday, that's today, the company said that that
it will retire The Late Show, that franchise will go away.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will end it his
historic run in May of next years. We have about
ten months left on this deal and end the broadcast season.
(27:58):
The company said in the statement, we consider Stephen Colbert
irreplaceable and we'll retire the Late Show and that franchise
will go away. It'll never come back, and says we're
proud of Stephen and how he called CBS home and
it's purely a financial decision against the challenging backdrop of
Late Night. Okay, what they're not saying on this piece
(28:22):
of paper is that he killed his show. He wiped
it out. If you cannot watch that show unless you
also hate Donald Trump, and so it's a smaller, smaller audience.
You know, when you could never tell what Johnny Carson's
politics were, You never knew what his politics were. I
(28:44):
think at the end it was revealed that he was
more conservative than he was liberal. But you can never
tell on a show which way he was leading. He
did jokes about presidents, and it doesn't matter who was
in office, he did jokes about him. But with Stephen Colbert,
every single night, it's Donald He hates Donald Trump, and
his whole audience does too. When Steven A. Smith showed
(29:05):
up the other night and he made a comment about
about Donald Trump, the audience went nuts, and so he
reduced that audience to a mere you know, five to
six percent of the country, who I understand if you don't.
You know, if you don't like Donald Trump, but you
have to hate Donald Trump to watch that show. And
(29:26):
if you didn't, then the show didn't work for you.
And he killed that show. So all those people who
worked on that show and we're making a living. He
couldn't control himself and had had to bang on Trump
every night, and now all those people are going to
be out of work. All the cameramen, all the writers,
the wardrobe, the lighting guy, the producers, the segment producers,
(29:49):
the band, the music, all those guys are out of
a job because he couldn't control himself. He couldn't separate
himself and just do a comedy show every night. It
had to be f Trump, and he destroyed the show,
and all those salaries, all those are going away. If
he was successful and he opened it up a little,
he would still be on the air. But he didn't,
(30:11):
and he wiped him out. That's how a lot of
people see it, all right, real live. It's Cone Bay
Show Live on KFI AM six forty
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